sharks

In June, the first missions of a successful joint operation between specialized environmental prosecutors of the government of Peru and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society encountered and apprehended multiple illegal fishing vessels in Peruvian waters. Aboard Sea Shepherd’s ship Ocean Warrior, officials and advocates worked together to support the Peruvian government’s efforts to monitor its sovereign […]

When marine biologist Daniel J. Madigan was working on a research project around Isla San Esteban, Mexico, he heard rumors of illegal shark poaching occurring off the Gulf of California. At the time, eight fishermen illegally caught and killed as many as 14 great white sharks, Hakai Magazine reported. After contacting the poachers and examining […]

Several large marine animals, from sharks to seals to turtles to penguins, have been observed doing something scientists find strange: swimming in circles. The observations, published in iScience Thursday, raise further questions about why exactly so many ocean animals are moving in a seemingly inefficient way. “Given that similar circling behavior was observed across a […]

Scientists have newly photographed three species of shark that can glow in the dark, according to a study published in Frontiers in Marine Science last month. The sharks were found in the waters of Chatham Rise, off of New Zealand. And one of them, the kitefin shark (Dalatias licha), is now the largest known vertebrate […]

The oceans and space are two of the last frontiers of discovery. It is only fitting, then, that technology originally designed to help map stars imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope has now been adapted to match spot patterns on the world’s largest fish, the whale shark, to help save it. Whale sharks can grow […]

The climate crisis is driving young great white sharks up the California coast, and it’s causing problems for the endangered wildlife that live there. Juvenile great white sharks have historically spent their time in Southern California waters, but after a marine heat wave started in 2014, they began to spend more time further north in […]

An alarming new study reports that the global population of sharks and rays has declined 71 percent since 1970. The crash, due to overfishing, underscores the need for international policymakers to reverse the species’ impending collapse. Published in Nature, the study is one of the first global assessments of its kind, The New York Times […]

The megalodon, or megatooth shark, was such a fearsome prehistoric predator that it continues to inspire horror films roughly 3.6 million years after its extinction. Adult megalodons (Otodus megalodon) could grow to be about 50 feet in length. Now, new research published in Historical Biology on Monday shows that the sharks were fear-inducing from the […]